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Posts: 580
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: USA
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04-06-09, 06:36 PM
DtotheJ,
Yes, I remember this cat and watching him on the Donahue (or Sally Jessie Raphael) show way back in the day. They had him and his white family on.
'Kaffir Boy' was one of those 'required reading' books back when I was in high-school. Years later, I had a South African boyfriend and some South African friends who told me that the book was written for a white audience by a brother who was seeking acceptance/validation from them. I guess he found it with that white woman coz he sure was grinning on that Donahue show.
I wonder whether he went back to South Africa to live after the '92 elections?
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In all seriousness though, sometimes I think about the really deep down mental disjointedness so many 'conscious' Black people have.
We generally tend to know what time it is, but still, there's things that have us trapped in the closet.
I personally truly believe that white folks will never take people like Dambisa Moyo seriously when they present their pro-Africa emancipation causes looking like they physically dipped themselves in a 'white package'. And the Africans back in Africa she's trying to help are probably emulating her presentation (look)... Then, the more 'conscious' (I guess) Black folk who know that presentation and delivery must be uniformly confident (i.e. if you're talking about Black emancipation, look and be fully emancipated), well these folks are looking at sistergirl and wondering why she's got that thing on her head, and how much more in check she'd place those white folks if she'd walked out with some cornrows on her.
(But she ain't got to have a dashiki on) 
Not to knock her, because she's obviously brilliant and has her heart in the right place, but on a subconscious (but also very glaring) level, she's sending a double-sided message out to those white folks she's talking to.
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I guess this falls into the old debates of whether or not you can be fully Pro-Black if you're looking white, married to white, living around white etc, ad finitum...
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